The Ficek Family: June 2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Seattle Regional Tourney

In late June, Cade and I ventured to Seattle along with David, Pascal and a couple of Pascal's teammates for the US Club Regionals. Cade was excited to play another tournament with his Boca Blue team after being off for so long because of his back injury. Cade had a really good tournament scoring a nice goal in the first game and playing strong. The Boca Blues's won the first game 2-1 against a team from Arizona. They then lost to Crossfire 0-2 but won their final pool game 1-0. Unfortunately they did not advance to semi-final due to goal differential tie-breaker but it was a successful tournament for Cade and his team.

Riding with a car load of boys!

Jogging back after Cade's goal in the first game!

It's nice that Cade isn't the little guy out no the field anymore!

Our 'go-to' hotel for tournaments, Embassy Suites!

Facetiming with Daddy and Nev :)

Chad sent me this picture of Willem who said he was missing us :)

Love this shot of Cade and me

Friday, June 21, 2013

Jackie's Bridal Shower

We've been enjoying lots of family time with Marilyn and kids visiting from Nicaragua the last 2+ weeks of June. It is so exciting that my niece is getting married in August (to a great guy :) and I was lucky to host her bridal shower with the help of my sis, Amber, and Jackie's sis, Erika. We had a great, relaxing and fun evening including lots of visiting, a game of 'Who Knows Jackie Best', delicious food and fun gifts.

Jackie's fiance, Jerson, joined for the beginning of the evening

My sister, Marilyn, with her beautiful girls!

Fun opening the gifts!

Playing the 'Who Knows Jackie Best' game. Jackie's mom and sisters took the prizes!

Nev loved spending lots of time with her cousin Nia

Me and mt girls! Love them!

Searra, Mariah, Amber and baby Vivian

Jackie and her Grandma

Thursday, June 20, 2013

New Backyard!

I love these pictures of all of us working hard to put our new backyard in! The kids were actually really good helpers (most of) the day we put all the sod in and we've loved having nice grass in the backyard. It is so much better for playing soccer, baseball, dinners on the deck, running through the sprinkler and more!

Had to include this classic summer picture of Cade and his big cousins playing basketball at Opa's house....

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Tournament Season Begins!

The first weekend school was out we headed to our first soccer tournament in Portland. All three of our big kids played in it and they all did so well. Both Willem's U11 Dortmund Blue team and Cade's U16 Boca Jr Blue won the top division of the THUSC United Cup. The competition was not the best that they have seen but it was still great that they both won! Willem's team won their pool play games in commanding fashion with 10-0, 5-1, 10-0 and 8-0 wins. The championship game was a lot closer with a 1-0 win over SSC Revolution. Willem played in goal the whole final game and secured the shutout. In the earlier games he shared time in goal with two other boys but was still able to score and assist numerous goals when he was on the field. Cade's team won all three of their pool play games 2-0 and then beat EMFC's Boca White team (and his cousin Pascal...who played great) 2-1 in the final. Cade scored both goals in the final which was a blast! He also scored another couple goals in pool play.

Elle's U13 Sol Blue team played some good competition. In pool play they lost 0-1 to FC Navy then beat WA Timbers Forest 3-0 and NEU 5-0 which was enough to win their group of three. They ended up losing in the semi-final to Westside Timbers TS in a close game 0-1. Elle played some of her best games she has ever played and played almost the whole game every game at center back.

The tournament was especially fun because my sisters, and three of my brothers and their kids were there to watch a lot of the games. Such a fun weekend!